sit coms

Soooo many fav’s all for different reasons.
Huge fan of Ronnie Barker so love Porridge as my alltime fav but Open all Hours is up there as well. I prefer clever humour and love word play not just out n out jokes.
Used to love Ever Decreasing Circles. Used to watch that in the afternoons when i was dole scum lol.
George in George n Mildred has to be one of the funniest characters.
Used to like The Gaffer that used to be on lunch times and i used to come home from school lunchtime just to watch that it. starred Bill Maynard.

I liked Spaced and Green Wing. Sterling stuff. Not to mention the Boosh.

one foot in the grave

the young ones (cause i was young at the time)

porrige

the good life (because barbara had a sexy bum)

still game

rab c nesbit (the early ones)

love thy neighbour ( before the PC brigade fcuked it up)

till death us do part (same as above)

friends

steptoe and son

faulty towers

my family

some mothers do av em

citizen smith

only fools and horses (but only some of them…)

robins nest

father ted

you’ll notice ive not added little britain (which i think is crap) and the office (which i also think is crap)…over hyped

I have to be honest and say that most of the sitcoms mentioned on here so far, have acquired a status that comes only with looking back through rose-tinted-glasses. Most..when examined up against the cold light of 2008, fall into the comfy and twee categories, rather than genuinely clever and belly-laugh funny.
Piled up in the C&T corner are the likes of the ON THE BUSES, TERRY AND JUNE, ROBIN’S NEST, GEORGE AND MILDRED et al. Indeed most of the stuff produced in the sixties and seventies with the exceptions of HANCOCK’S HALF HOUR, STEPTOE, DAD’S ARMY, REGGIE PERRIN, and FAWLTY TOWERS, rarely rose above the “more tea, vicar?” quaintness of English suburban niceness.
So if it’s nostalgia which lends the canned laughter to RISING DAMP or MAN ABOUT THE HOUSE…what is it that quantifies the genuinely funny article from the mildly heartwarming?
Intelligence, sharp biting wit, a sense of the absurd played out against normality..all of these scamper and tumble through the best that the eighties, nineties and noughties brought to the bigger, better and sharper screens in the corners of our sitting-rooms.
Enter YES MINISTER, BLACKADDER,ONE FOOT, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED, FATHER TED.
Oh and perhaps I should make mention of FATHER TED, arguably the most adroit and nimble of comedies this side of anywhere, ever.
An honourable mention to GREENWING and BOOSH and then I really must retire for a cup of Mrs. Doyle’s tea. I don’t really want one..but she insists.

TED CAN’T SLEEP